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Speaker 1: Five Double A nine with Matthew pantellas Ian has called

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Speaker 1: in Ian, I understand you run a gallery on Jedti Road.

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Speaker 2: Hello are you in HELLI thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Lais what's going on? Obviously? The road works?

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Look, the situation in Jeni Road is serious

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Speaker 2: and it's getting worse by the week. What we're saying

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Speaker 2: is just not a major disruption, it's an economic collapse

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Speaker 2: for small businesses. And the sad thing is much of

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Speaker 2: this could have been avoided with proper planning, communication and

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Speaker 2: genuine care for the traders who make Jeti Road the

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Speaker 2: iconic destination is. Yeah, as we know right now, we've

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Speaker 2: got the Council pointing the finger at the government, the

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Speaker 2: state government pointing it back at the council. Traders are

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Speaker 2: stuck in the middle and with Reno answers. So what

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Speaker 2: we understand is that the Council says that they're pushing

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Speaker 2: they're being pushed into starting the Jedi Road upgrade at

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Speaker 2: the same time as state government's tramwork because of strict

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Speaker 2: rules around how close you can work to an active

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Speaker 2: tremlin and what hours you can work. So those restrictions

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Speaker 2: are real. But here's what's more important is that there

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Speaker 2: was absolutely no meaning, meaningful consideration for traders from the

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Speaker 2: very beginning, So there was no consultation, there was no planning,

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Speaker 2: there was no strategy to protect businesses. So if traders

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Speaker 2: have been properly prioritized, they would have done whatever it

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Speaker 2: took to expedite the project. Put on extra shifts, work faster,

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Speaker 2: expend construction teams, so businesses weren't left struggling for months

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Speaker 2: on end. Yeah, look to give you the real numbers,

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Speaker 2: because this is what the public wants to hear. Is

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Speaker 2: the foot traffic last time last year at this time

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Speaker 2: averaged four hundred, eight hundred and forty two people. During

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Speaker 2: the roadworks, it's dropped to just two hundred and ten people.

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Speaker 2: Now that's that there is a seventy to eighty percent

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Speaker 2: drop in trade for most businesses. Yeah, that's per day.

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Speaker 2: So no businesses can survive without quickly falling into financial distress.

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Speaker 2: And I'm talking about businesses that I've been there for,

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Speaker 2: you know, ten twenty thirty years now, questioning whether they'll

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Speaker 2: make it to Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely No, I haven't been down there for a while,

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Speaker 1: but I have been down and it is just you

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Speaker 1: know as colloquially a dog's breakfast, and the fact that

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Speaker 1: you can't cross the road, you know, as a pedestrian

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Speaker 1: unless you go all the way around. I just wonder

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Speaker 1: how many people are bothering if there's a shop they

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Speaker 1: want on the other side, and you know you've got

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Speaker 1: to walk up half a k or whatever, you know,

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Speaker 1: even a couple of hundred meters, you'd go, well, stuff this,

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Speaker 1: I'll just go somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean I talk to a lot of

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Speaker 2: traders and some have told me that they're takings have

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Speaker 2: dropped so low that they can't even cover their daily operating.

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Speaker 2: They're not even close, you know. I have a look

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Speaker 2: at Counter's approach to supporting Jetty Road, and the cracks,

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Speaker 2: to be honest, got even wider, you know. They you know,

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Speaker 2: take the take the sixty thousand dollars and they put

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Speaker 2: on recently the local and the Neon tides. Do you

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Speaker 2: know how many people attended that event? How many seventy

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Speaker 2: four people for the whole weekend?

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Speaker 1: Wow?

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Speaker 2: So it was a complete failure. It tells us that

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Speaker 2: the marketing is poor. It tells us that the strategy

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Speaker 2: is off. It tells us that the money isn't going

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Speaker 2: where it's needed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So now we's got customers begging traders to stay open,

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Speaker 2: We've got traders begging the council to help stay afloat,

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Speaker 2: and the chain of desperation keeps going because the systems

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Speaker 2: aren't in the systems in place, they're not working.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you were listening this morning, Ian

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Speaker 1: on the Breakfast show, David and Will had on and

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Speaker 1: I think it was breaking at eight. I don't remember

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Speaker 1: if it was or wasn't now, but anyway, they had

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Speaker 1: Stamford Grant just saying about the lack of communication where

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Speaker 1: they've asked counsel for assistance. They've written to council, had

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Speaker 1: no response. They've laid off staff or can't give their

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Speaker 1: casuals enough work and they're not keeping their bar open,

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Speaker 1: closing bars and restaurants because there's no one there. Therefore

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Speaker 1: people aren't working. But they've written to the council, had

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Speaker 1: no reply. As is with residents as well. We've got

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Speaker 1: emails from people and texts about they've written to council,

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Speaker 1: has had no reply. You know, if this council next

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Speaker 1: year from the mayor Amanda Wilson down thinks they're going

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Speaker 1: to be re elected and pad it on the back

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Speaker 1: the job well done. Gee, I'd be very surprised if

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Speaker 1: any of them get back.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So I went to a Jeni Road traders meeting

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Speaker 2: in Main Street committee meeting and in that meeting it

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Speaker 2: was it was very much let's point the fingers, but

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Speaker 2: we don't have a solution. And you know, I want

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Speaker 2: to address this so called support that's being offered because

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Speaker 2: on paper, yes it looks good, but in reality it's

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Speaker 2: not usable. So the rent relief, it's not relief, it's

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Speaker 2: a deferral. We still have to pay it back later

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Speaker 2: and it's not so it's debt. With the business grants,

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Speaker 2: you know, the whole Fus City Bay Council have got

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Speaker 2: many grants. Most require match spending to beautify your shop.

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Speaker 2: Who has the money for that when you're taking when

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Speaker 2: you're taking the pall by seven eight. So now traders,

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Speaker 2: right now, I can barely afford rent rate, staff, wages,

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Speaker 2: electricity and stop don't have they don't have five or

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Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars sitting around to match a grant. These

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Speaker 2: programs were not designed for a crisis. They were designed

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Speaker 2: for normal times. But we're not in normal times on

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Speaker 2: Jetty Road anymore.

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Speaker 1: That's right. You run Marlo Galleries and as I understand,

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Speaker 1: what are you going to do? You're staying open? Can

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Speaker 1: you stay open? What's your future?

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Speaker 2: At the moment, I can stay open because I'm relatively new.

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Speaker 2: But don't get me wrong, I'm now struggling. You know,

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Speaker 2: I come to the time where I thought, you know,

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Speaker 2: the top end of Jeti Road is finished. Will will

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Speaker 2: be all right? You know, I'll be able to you know,

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Speaker 2: I'll be able to do business as usual. I'll be

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Speaker 2: able to help the traders down Jetti Road that are struggling,

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Speaker 2: because I'll be fine. Well, now it comes to the

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Speaker 2: point where I'm struggling now because of people not coming

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Speaker 2: press media releases that come out on remember stay On

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Speaker 2: the eleventh of November, Amanda Wilson got behind a camera

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Speaker 2: and was saying, you know, please come down support Jeti Road.

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Speaker 2: But she said, Brighton. Now the trader's down Brighton on

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Speaker 2: JETI Road. Don't need help, trust me, they're running it.

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Speaker 2: They're running the advocate of a three point four million

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Speaker 2: highest turnover. This in this financial financial you just gone

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Speaker 2: because of Jeddi because no one's going to Jeddi Road

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Speaker 2: me to the leadership. You know, we're respectfully calling on

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Speaker 2: the mad to seriously reflect on her position within the

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Speaker 2: whole Fast Bay Council, not out of anger, but out

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Speaker 2: of necessity. You know, we need leadership that fights for traders,

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Speaker 2: leadership that listens, and leadership that shows up.

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Speaker 1: Do you think she should stand down? That's what you're saying.

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Speaker 2: I do, I do, and right now traders feel abandoned.

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Speaker 2: So and when leadership loses their confidence in the community,

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Speaker 2: especially during the crisis as we know through every other politics,

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Speaker 2: then yes we have a question whether that leadership should continue.

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Speaker 1: Well there it is, all right. So the line is

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Speaker 1: trade is called for the Mare to stand down. That's

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Speaker 1: the headline.

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Speaker 2: Well, the man to stand down and also the Jetti

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Speaker 2: Road Main Street Committee to stand down and have a

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Speaker 2: re elected new bench because you know, you go to

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Speaker 2: one of these meetings and you know they're talking about,

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Speaker 2: you know how the jetty rope prestincts. You know, they're

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Speaker 2: talking about the ice cream festival, they're talking about the

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Speaker 2: the Christmas you know, they can't do the Christmas puget,

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Speaker 2: so they're putting on something in the square, you know,

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Speaker 2: So that that there also hurts traders because it's all

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Speaker 2: about the square, it's not about the road. Then you've

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Speaker 2: got Year's Eve, so no entertainment New Year's Eve. I

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Speaker 2: was talking to Amanda Wilson today and I said to her,

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Speaker 2: I'm willing to throw your lifeline. I've got a lot

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Speaker 2: of friends that's part of Electric Island that come down

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Speaker 2: every year to do something in around the April March

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Speaker 2: April period. Some DJs. I've got some very well known

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Speaker 2: bands that would go down there just to help out.

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Speaker 2: It's up it's now up to the council to agree

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Speaker 2: on that whether they're going to have entertainment with the fireworks.

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Speaker 2: Otherwise all you do is you'll have fireworks nothing else.

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Speaker 2: Now you tell me, how is that going to help

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Speaker 2: the traders? If you go from a record breaking one

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it really. Did you tell it to stand

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Speaker 2: I asked, I asked her if she would think about

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Speaker 2: her position within there, I said, because what's happening is

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Speaker 2: you've got melanaskis that is labor, You've got a liberal

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Speaker 2: mayor and the word that came up was punishment. So

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Speaker 2: they're punishing Amanda Wilson because she's liberal. Now when I'm

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Speaker 2: look at it this way is where all people, we're

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Speaker 2: all human beings, we all got rent to pay, we've

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Speaker 2: all got livelihoods to go through. If you are punishing

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Speaker 2: the traders. You're also punishing the traders, You're punishing the customers,

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Speaker 2: You're punishing everyone down down Glennell's And if it's because

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Speaker 2: we vote in a labor mayor, get this place up

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Speaker 2: and running again and be able to show showcase glenelg

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Speaker 2: as a top five destination what it used to be,

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Speaker 2: actually one of the worst places to come in South Australia.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, that's it. And you'd like to think that

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Speaker 1: the government is big enough not to get so partisan.

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Speaker 1: And I get it. I mean, she stood in the

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Speaker 1: you know, politics is unforgiving. But ultimately it's the people

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Speaker 1: hope the government isn't, you know, actively punishing, although it

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Speaker 1: does seem to be a bit that way. Case in point.

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Speaker 1: I mean, one thing Glannell could use at the moment

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Speaker 1: is a bit of a ring route around the road works.

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Speaker 1: Have a free bus running and I understand, you know,

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Speaker 1: particularly for the busses that pull up. Mind you, they're

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Speaker 1: empty when they arrive at Glenell because no one's going

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Speaker 1: back and does that all day. God knows, they brought

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Speaker 1: in forty extra buses from Interstate, they're all empty. They

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Speaker 1: if they're punishing that ain't gonna happen, but you know,

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Speaker 1: you'd hope it's not that, because it is the traders

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Speaker 1: ultimately that are losing out here. Ian, thank you for

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Speaker 1: the call. We'll leave it there, Colin. Shearing is called

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Speaker 1: in CEOs A Independent Retailers. Colin, it must be so

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Speaker 1: distressing for you to hear these stories.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's so sad and it's blending obvious that planning

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Speaker 3: biggest issue that these main streets have in South Australia

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Speaker 3: is planning. But it's good planning and quite obviously there

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Speaker 3: has been no good planning with this whatsoever. And clearly,

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Speaker 3: these traders like Ian, this turnover, this loss of business,

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Speaker 3: forever forever. And that's one thing that councils will never understand.

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Speaker 3: It shows very clearly and verifies what we've been saying

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Speaker 3: all the way along that councils have no idea how

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Speaker 3: I don't think they should be sitting on the committee

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Speaker 3: because I think it should be the business that drive

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Speaker 3: even the issues around transport that you're talking about, ring

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Speaker 3: And one thing is very clear. You know, in six

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Speaker 3: Really come on the radio this morning with David and

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Speaker 3: Will is unheard of and let's stop this blame game

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Speaker 3: That bit's appalling. So I take my my hats off

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Speaker 3: to the businesses for surviving. But more importantly, they're going

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Speaker 1: Have suffered and they'll never get it back. Like you say, Hey,

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Speaker 1: you wanted to talk on net zero as well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, look I did hear you know, just traveling home

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Speaker 3: certainty from business. Well, can I say to you, it

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter what sort of business you are in this country.

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Speaker 3: If there's volatility in energy costs and energy costs keep

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Speaker 3: all affected by energy. Doesn't matter what you are and

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Speaker 3: what you do. So I think I think his statement

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Speaker 3: coming out about you know, by them not agreeing with

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Speaker 3: the net zero is going to take away the certainty

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Speaker 3: of business. Well, I think we've got very much uncertainty

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Speaker 3: in business and that's going to get worse by allowing

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Speaker 3: these energy costs to keep on going up, but also

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Speaker 3: the volatility of the energy market affecting all businesses.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Colin, thanks for the call. You running

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Speaker 1: for State parliament again this coming election.

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Speaker 3: No, no, I won't be. No. I believe I can

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Speaker 3: push other people's buttons in other ways. But you know,

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Speaker 3: this is more about still advocating for South Australian grown

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Speaker 3: businesses and owned businesses that are really important. I like

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Speaker 3: to see everyone's dollars stays in South Australia.

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Speaker 1: All right, good on your Thanks for the call